/* Orbas:
 *     A open source CORBA Specification implementation from Huihoo.
 *
 * Copyright 2002-2003 Huihoo.org, Inc. All Right Reserved.
 *
 * This software is licensed under LGPL license.
 * See terms of license at gnu.org.
 *
 * For more information, visit:
 *
 * http://www.huihoo.org/orbas
 */



package org.huihoo.orbas.orb.protocols;

/**
 * <p>Description: </p>
 * An object which represent network connection.
 * <p>Copyright (c) 2002,2003</p>
 * <p>Company: <a href="http://www.huihoo.org/">huihoo.org</a></p>
 * @author <a href="http://www.huihoo.org/~mep">mep(mep@huihoo.com)</a>
 * @see <a href="http://www.huihoo.org/orbas">http://www.huihoo.org/orbas</a>
 * @version 1.0
 */


public abstract class Channel implements java.lang.Runnable{
    
    public Channel() {
        
    }
    
    public abstract int getProtocolTag();
    
    public abstract TargetAddress getTargetAddress();
    
    public abstract void setTargetAddress(TargetAddress a);
    
    public abstract Transport setup();
    
    public abstract void teardown();
    
    public abstract void run();
    
    public abstract Transport accept();
    
}